pick vs fingers for punk

[boxcarracer]

I've just started playing bass with a view to play in new school punk bands (blink 182 stylee) should i use a pick or not?

[Donne Demarest]

PICK for PUNK
FINGERS for FUNK
EITHER/OR FOR ROCK N' ROLL

[Pacman]

what do your ears tell you?

[just_a_poser]

I actually play stuff like that with my fingers. If I want a pick like tone I use my finger nail.

I've learned that if you play fingerstyle, you can do a lot more. If you're holding a pick, it's hard to slap and stuff. Not that you'd be slapping during Blink 182 songs probably but uh, yeah. Whatever works for you.

[Matt Till]

I'd personally say both. Play whatever the song calls for.

[dancehallclasher]

Originally posted by Pacman
what do your ears tell you?

exactly. i play about 50/50. on some songs, for whatever reason, my bass doesn't cut through right without a pick. and on some songs, i just don't get enough thud with a pick. i don't ask why, i just switch off, and it works...

[Secksay]

I can't post here until I learn to control my childish impulses. I must now say to myself daily "My opionions are not fact."

[Ívar Þórólfsson]

Originally posted by Secksay
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That was uncalled for. If he likes Blink182, than that´s his business, not yours.

Anyway, try to learn as many styles as possible. Using the pick is pretty much the standard for punk though. But it´s very good to have both finger and pick techniques in your arsenal.

[Secksay]

oh come on it was a joke.

everyone has different opinions of music, being able to express them is what matters. it would be wrong if i deleted someone's post for saying they liked a band.

[Pacman]

Originally posted by Secksay
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[Farley]

Old school punk... The Ramones, Dead Boys, Fear, etc. all played with a pick and played only downstrokes.

There really isn't a preferred method. Like others have said, whatever sounds good to you.

[Doryan]

Pick.

[sick-jimmychick]

i use a pick for most punk(blink especially)...only cos my fingers get to tired playing blink-type stuff... but as the others said whatever sounds right to you!

[wilks]

For punk you should use a pick. Blink especially

[Chip]

dont always be so blunt fingers or pick
i use fingers for metal.... on a fretless

[Doryan]

Originally posted by Chip
dont always be so blunt fingers or pick
i use fingers for metal.... on a fretless

On a fretless , great. I am mainly into metal, and I always loved playing fretless.
But somehow I never could combine the 2.
I resorted into going back to fretted for metal, and pick up my fretless sometimes, but that's for fusion.
Do you know any recordings where a fretless is applied in metal ?

I think fingers for metal are really great, you can create much more speed.
Perhaps a pick gives a little bit of a punk feeling, although Justin from Tool, his tone's rule.

[Chip]

i dont think anyone has actually used a fretless (let alone with fingers) for metal

[Pacman]

Originally posted by Chip
i dont think anyone has actually used a fretless (let alone with fingers) for metal

click here

[Doryan]

Originally posted by Chip
i dont think anyone has actually used a fretless (let alone with fingers) for metal

I think I remember a song from Iced Earth, Dracula.
But it's more a-ballad-from-a-tuff-metalband kinda song.

I'm a bit confused about your opinion about using fingers for metal, you're not against it, aren't you ? Or do you mean fingers + fretless for metal. And rather have a fretless with pick for metal if it has to be done with a fretless ?

When I play metal: I play with fingers on a fretted.
In my new fusion band: I play with pick on a fretless.
Strange isn't it ?

[Chip]

i wouldnt call that metal
i'm talking about pantera, metallica and stuff like that